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100

The name of the newbie who went viral for chewing gum off the floor of the pit at Dabin

Who is Nate Ma?

100

This Mongol conqueror fathered so many children that roughly 1 in 200 men today share his DNA.

Who is Genghis Khan?

100

What is the oldest known recipe in the world used for?

What is Beer?

100

This type of plot uses boxes and whiskers to show medians, quartiles, and potential outliers.

What is a box plot?

100

This South Korean Netflix competition show brought together athletes, bodybuilders, and soldiers to test their strength, endurance, and sheer willpower in a quest to find the most perfect physique.

What is Physical: 100?

200

These new member(s) of DSS are also on Data 8 course staff

Who are Wayne and Sarah?

200

42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton infamously left office following a controversy where he admitted to receiving crazy dome from this individual

Who is Monica Lewinsky?

200

What was the first fast-food chain in China?

What is KFC?

200

This central limit theorem states that as sample size grows, the sampling distribution of the mean approaches this type of distribution.

What is the normal distribution?

200

This Gen-Z musical artist got into hot water recently after his 14 y/o girlfriend was found dead in the trunk of a Tesla Model 3 registered under his name

Who is D4VD?

300

These new member(s) of DSS are class of 2027

Who is Isabel, Gina, and Luis?

300

This 2010 political movement in the Middle East began when a Tunisian fruit vendor’s protest sparked mass uprisings.

What is the Arab Spring?

300

This term describes the brown crust formed on meat or vegetables when sugars and proteins react under high heat.

What is the Maillard reaction?

300

This probability distribution models the number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space.

What is the Poisson distribution?

300

The makeup/beauty brands Fenty and Rare Beauty were founded (respectively) by these two musical artists

Who are Rihanna, Selena Gomez?

400

The names of the newbie(s) who practice martial arts

Who are Haylie and Natalie?

400

In 1932, Australia actually declared war on this large, flightless bird, and lost.

  • What is the emu?

400

This food is England's unofficial national dish

Chicken Tikka Masala

400

This unsupervised learning algorithm groups similar data points based on distance metrics like Euclidean distance.

What is K-means clustering?

400

This Professional Football Wide Receiver impregnated artist Cardi B following Cardi B’s split from her ex-husband Offset from the rap group Migos

Who is Stefon Diggs?

500

The names of every newbie from the greater San Jose area

who is Haylie, Sarah, Ishaan, Nate, Annabel, Natalie, and Kodai?

500

These animals from the Americas were once blamed by European historians for introducing syphilis to the Old World after Columbus’s voyages.

What are llamas?

500

As of 2025,  this is the lowest rated restaurant in Southside (according to Yelp)

What is Wingstop?

500

This algorithm, commonly used for classification tasks, is based on the principle of finding the hyperplane that best separates the classes.

What is a Support Vector Machine (SVM)?

500

These are the band members of the KPOP group TWICE (name at least 5)

who is Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu?